Subscribe to the BlogI think aane mages are pretty easy to kill, in arena at least. If one opens up on you from 41 yards in a BG somewhere, well yeah. That's gonna hurt. But you always start in melee range in arena, so they are foed on the defensive from the get go. Just bubble immediately. They are foed toompletely shift to defensive mode. Therial thing is to knk em out of invis with DS, or failing thatonsrate in the dirtion they were running in.
Well I've been mostly quiet about all these nerfs and things, I tend not to be too retionary, sie I know that Blizzard's staehanges at the drop of a hat, and it's not worth the pan attk. Anyway, I knew these nerfs were going to happen, it was just a matter of time. Either way, even with all of these nerfs, we are still way more powered than we were pre-pah, as Tommy pointed out. Our survivability has gone up a TON, as well as our DPS and our sustainability. Art of War, Judgement of the Wise, not needing to judgereseal every time, our AP going towards out spell power, e... Eh one of these by themselves is a major buff to the Retribution Sp. The way the nerfs werearried out I don't nessarily agree with, like others on here have pointed out, putting AW on forbearae makes it just like it was pre-pah: Nigh-unusable by most spssituations sie it's more preferable to have your bubble ready whenever possible. However, I amounting on Blizzard realizing this andhanging it bk and doing something like Ze suggested, or just make it so that AWan't be used when the Paladinurrently has their Divine Shield up and ve-versa. The problem is that a lot of Retribution Paladins got a taste of Godhood, and now that Bliz is saying "No... no wait you should be more like everyone else" they don't want to give up your godhood. Sure it was fun when it lasted, and I enjoyed destroying people and mobs as well as the rest of you, but when Ian solo Mana Tombs in the gear I'm in, or Onyxia, or destroy 2 lvl 70s and still be at full health and mana after the fight, there is something wrong there. HOWever, the splash damage the other sps are getting isn'tool. Prottion and Holy were in good shapeompared to the otherlasses, and Holyould stand for aouple more buffs, and they don't really deserve to be nerfed bause of Retributions god-ness. Also, wait until lvl 80 when we fall behind the otherlasses again, and they fix all the nerfs. The problem here is they were balaing for 80 pre-pah, oe the pahame out they started balaing at 70 again. We'll see where we are at 3 months after the expansion. Should be interesting.